July 2025 Updates — Welcome to the age of Copilot-driven SOC mayhem Another month, another round of Microsoft Sentinel updates. But this time, it’s not just “new features” — it’s Copilot on caffeine, automation on steroids, and behavior analytics that feel more like digital surveillance than SIEM. 🔥 What’s new in July? 🧠 Incident Enrichment…
Month: July 2025
Windows is dead, but still breathing cash
The new Extended Security Updates (ESU) 2025 Microsoft just launched a new necromancy-as-a-service program.Officially, Windows 10 dies on October 14, 2025. But with ESU, it can limp along till 2028 — a solid business decision if you’re not quite ready to bury your operating system. 💀 Is Windows 10 really dying? Yep. After Oct 14,…
Hey Copilot, activate my Windows! – How Microsoft’s AI happily handed out pirated keys
When you ask an AI for help, you probably expect it to translate a sentence or summarize a cat video. But Microsoft Copilot took it up a notch. It started handing out activation scripts for Windows and Office. To anyone. On demand. No ID check, no background screening. Just vibes. Yes, you read that right….
Windows 11: A Masterclass in Disappointment
Ah, mon ami, preparez-vous for Microsoft’s latest chef-d’œuvre of frustration—Windows 11. A magnifique fusion of half-baked ideas, forced UI changes, and merde-tier updates. In this exquisitely painful series, we’ll explore (actually 5 days, 5 articles non stop): Part 1: Startup Apps — RAM Slathering Before Coffee Microsoft’s chef-d’œuvre of bloat. We’ll dissect: RunOnce, GroupPolicy\Machine\Scripts\Startup—because why boot fast? Sysinternals Boot Trace—watching your PC wheeze into…
Copilot Remembers Everything (Even What You’d Rather It Forgot)
🤖 Copilot Memory: When AI Stops Forgetting and Starts Logging Microsoft just gave Copilot something spicy — a memory.No, not the cute, “reminds-you-to-send-an-email” kind.We’re talking long-term, vector-based, semantically-indexed, compliance-monitored memory. This isn’t AI that helps. This is AI that remembers what you asked six weeks ago at 2:46AM, cross-references it with your writing style, and…
GDPR: Not Just a Regulation — Your Digital Trust Architecture in the EU
Why every European company must treat GDPR not as a checkbox, but as a strategic pillar “Compliance is not a project. It’s a posture.”— Chief Privacy Officer, leading European fintech firm 🧩 What is GDPR — beyond the basics The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and Council,…
Azure Landing Zone on Steroids: Why You Need a Dedicated Security Subscription and Management Group
What just happened? Microsoft introduced a new management group called Platform, along with a dedicated subscription solely for core platform and security services in Azure Landing Zone. Why? To cleanly separate foundational security services from the app mess. Why this matters Security and infrastructure are like the skeleton of your cloud. If it’s weak, everything…
🧨 SUDO, YOU HAD ONE JOB!
Hi, now any user can get root — and Microsoft told you this would happen “Don’t run as root!” — they shouted.“Use sudo, it’s secure!” — they said.Well guess what?Even a user not in sudoers can now gain full root access. All thanks to sudo‘s cozy little bug involving chroot, nsswitch.conf, and your complacency. 🧬…
Azure WAF vs Entra External ID: When Your Firewall Starts Shooting the Good Guys
Hi there, you’ve got a slick identity federation flow with Microsoft Entra External ID.User hits login.yourbrand.com, gets redirected to Entra, auths like a champ, and…BOOM — 403 Forbidden. Why?Because your Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) is having a mental breakdown over a legit id_token.Yeah — your security layer just called your login system a malicious…
DPAPI: The Granddaddy of Windows Crypto (and your secrets)
Hey hey, so, n0w lets talk about DPAPI DPAPI is ‘Data Protection API’ is Windows’ native system for encrypting stuff like saved credentials, cookies, Wi-Fi passwords, and personal certs. Introduced in Windows 2000, it’s the ancient beast that still powers a terrifying amount of “secure storage” in modern Windows. 🧠 Under the Hood Based on…